<div id=":1b3">No, I think you understood correctly. In order to do more fancy<br>
stuff, you&#39;d have to basically reimplement readline (using curses or<br>
something).</div></blockquote></div><br>PyPy ships with a pure Python implementation called PyRepl, which might be more configurable.<br><br><a href="http://codespeak.net/pyrepl/">http://codespeak.net/pyrepl/</a><br><br>

This ties in to one of our proposed projects* - we&#39;d like a readline-like library that could support similar features in different environments and on different platforms.<br><br>* <a href="http://wiki.ipython.org/Potential_projects">http://wiki.ipython.org/Potential_projects</a><br>